Michigan Wolverines

After a long day, you kick off your shoes, crack open a beer, turn on Fox News or CNN or MSNBC for some politics.

You shouldn't have to worry you'll be blindsided by someone injecting sports into the conversation.

Sure, everyone has their teams, and that's fine. But how many of us lately have had to start avoiding certain friends, co-workers or relatives because they won't shut up about their fantasy teams, moaning about a missed call or bad trade, rubbing our face in the fact their team won?

Shouldn't politics be a safe haven from all of that, insulated from the partisan world of sports? It increasingly isn't. Maybe it never was. But at least people used to try to...

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